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title: Shortly after this flood they say the present volcanic family came f… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after this flood they say the present volcanic family came from Tahiti, meaning some foreign country, to Hawaii. Who acts: islands, present volcanic family. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater, with its dependency tree and 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 20

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Shortly after this flood they say the present volcanic family came from Tahiti, meaning some foreign country, to Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** islands, present volcanic family · **What happens:** say, come, mean · **To what, where:** Hawaii, Tahiti, foreign country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (islands, present volcanic family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:28:20
# text = Shortly after this flood they say the present volcanic family came from Tahiti, meaning some foreign country, to Hawaii.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | islands *= island* |  |  |  | after this flood | shortly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | the present volcanic family |  | Hawaii | Tahiti |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tahiti=Initial\_Location to hawaii=Destination |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | the present volcanic family *not said here* | some foreign country |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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